Does anyone think mining was created to boost or save the tech industry in terms of hard goods? I have followed all of this for sometime including prices of video cards and such, 2015 was to be projected as the worst year for computer/part sales. It would seem alot more plausable to have coins that can not be mined such as IOTA where as i understand it, computers are bouncing small verification between 3 algos that tangle to make a whole instead of a DAG that never stops growing?
You are just seeing what you want to see, whenever there is a new invention there are people that benefit from it even if they did not collaborate with the project, second it is not like the tech industry is suffering, wherever you look you can see people with smartphones or ipads, they are selling computer and all kind of goods, so I do not see the tech industry losing any kind of steam, if anything things are going to keep getting better once we have new technologies like robots and the like.